Across Africa, Europe, and Asia, the Middle Ages were a hotbed for political events, military action, pioneering inventions, influential literature, and religious turmoil. Let’s travel back in ...

But this was not the case. In “A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages,” Anthony Bale describes a variety of medieval commoners taking long journeys on foot and horseback and by ship.

Turns out, the Dark Ages weren’t so dim when it came to wellness. Researchers have unearthed a trove of medical remedies dating back over a thousand years, revealing that early medieval ...

At the time, Morgan was the richest man in the world, worth $60 billion in today’s money at the height of his wealth. To some, he represented a captain of industry; to others, one of the ...

No orderly era was the Middle Ages. No orderly survey of it does the Boston Museum attempt to give, but a glamorous hodgepodge of a period when art and craftsmanship were more nearly one than ever ...